China’s transition. The world’s business.
7–13 Sep 2026
The Kunming Dialogue exposed the gap between national biodiversity plans and on-the-ground delivery. For companies, the next question is whether nature risk can be measured, financed and governed with the discipline increasingly applied to carbon.
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The Kunming Dialogue exposed the gap between national biodiversity plans and on-the-ground delivery. For companies, the next question is whether nature risk can be measured, financed and governed with the discipline increasingly applied to carbon.
Read the cover storyChina’s revised power-accident regulation moves safety governance toward prevention, wider grid participation and evidence that can survive an investigation.
New trading data show scale, but the harder corporate question is whether green power can be matched, traced and delivered in a form that changes production decisions.
A new opinion for state-owned coal enterprises puts technical authority, frontline reporting and protection from production pressure at the center of preventive safety governance.
Recognizing corporate sustainability planners as a new occupation signals that ESG capability is entering formal workforce policy—but a title alone does not guarantee decision authority or quality.
A Ministry of Ecology and Environment field visit linked straw use, biomass energy, soil protection, waste recycling and river-basin governance into one regional execution test.